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At the beginning of the new year I had a half-dozen things to write about: trying to get into playing Final Fantasy XI Online, my understated Halloween, progress in school. Random crap.

Sometime during the morning of January 1 I got a call from my friend anthonykrones. (Together, we make the Constituency of Real Name/Username Parallelism! It's exhilerating.) We'd been planning to move in together for some time now, but this was complicated first by the lack of adequate affordable housing, then by his wife's pregnancy, and finally by the birth of his first son, David. However, that morning they'd settled on a duplex that seemed to meet all requirements, so would I be interested in moving in with the three of them after all? I said yes. Probably two weeks later I was here, which is where I am now: sitting at my computer in a wrecked room that's only been half-unpacked, enjoying the freshly reconnected Internet (previously disconnected because of a late payment) in a duplex occupied at other times by two parents, 22 and 21 respectively (currently sleeping upstairs), the four-month-old infant (mercifully sleeping upstairs) and the infant's uncle on his mother's side (currently out at work, as he is every night, more or less).

I've been stewing these two months. Things to write about, so many things to write about--so many things that there's not much to say, and what I DO say is inevitably badly written. I've been reading a lot of Stephen King lately. The Eyes of the Dragon, On Writing, a nameless compilation of the novels he published under pseudonym, most probably stolen gauging by the lack of a cover. Stephen King and Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles. They've been my time-killers, when I'm not working and not at school and not at home in Derby with my parents and not driving between any given two of those locations.

At this point, I'm completely flummoxed as to how to end this, a flustered apologetic excuse for not updating for two months. So I'll just end it and get to the business of providing actual content. Yes. That's what I'll do.

Comments

[koipond.livejournal.com]

Eyes of the Dragon is King's best work in my eyes. It's shorter, better written and has that storyteller feel to it that I loved. I can read it again, and again.

I'm not as big a fan of Stephen King's books on writing. It might be because he's more along the lines of the "what you write first is best" line of thinking where I'm more like, "what you write first is you first draft."

[jasonlove.livejournal.com]

I think I agree with both points.